Tech entrepreneurs can spend months or years chasing investors to bankroll their companies. For Bruce J. Anderson, it took a brief chance encounter with a Google cofounder in a bathroom at the tech giant’s headquarters a decade ago.

The second half of the Newark Venture Partners Labs Demo Day at the Prudential Center in January featured pitches from the rest of the Fall 2017 class. All of these companies were in residence in Newark for the three-month-long program.

More than a month has gone by since the third cohort of startups at NVP Labs pitched to a crowd of 500 people in January. The event was hosted at the Prudential Center, the home of the Devil’s hockey team, and audience members were invited onto the ice before the pitch competition to demonstrate their skill at scoring goals.

Newark Venture Partners held its third Demo Day for NVP Labs accelerator companies in January and before the startups took to the stage at the Prudential Center (Newark), managing partners Tom Wisniewski and Dan Borok gave an update on the progress the venture fund and accelerator has made.

The Pathways to Success Opportunity Summit, held on February 27 at Newark’s Prudential Center and sponsored by the local branch of My Brother’s Keeper, brought together tech entrepreneurs at a panel titled, “Expanding Opportunity Through Technology and Social Media.”